Euripides And Tragic Theatre In The Late Fifth Century

Author : Andreas Markantonatos,Bernhard Zimmermann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110271560

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Crisis on Stage by Andreas Markantonatos,Bernhard Zimmermann Pdf

This volume explores the relationships between masterworks of Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes and critical events of Athenian history, by bringing together internationally distinguished scholars with expertise on different aspects of ancient theatre. These specialists study how tragic and comic plays composed in late fifth century BCE mirror the acute political and social crisis unfolding in Athens in the wake of the military catastrophe in 413 BCE and the oligarchic revolution in 411 BCE. With events of such magnitude the late fifth century held the potential for vast and fast cultural and intellectual change. In times of severe emergency humans gain a more conscious understanding of their historically shaped presence; this realization often has a welcome effect of offering new perspectives to tackle future challenges. Over twenty academic experts believe that the Attic theatre showed increased responsiveness to the pressing social and political issues of the day to the benefit of the polis. By regularly promoting examples of public-spirited and capable figures of authority, Greek drama provided the people of Athens with a civic understanding of their own good.

Author : Vayos Liapis,Antonis K. Petrides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107038554

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Greek Tragedy After the Fifth Century by Vayos Liapis,Antonis K. Petrides Pdf

What happened to Greek tragedy after the death of Euripides? This book provides some answers, and a broad historical overview.

Author : Edmund Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198747260

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Greek Tragedy on the Move by Edmund Stewart Pdf

Greek tragedy is one of the most important cultural legacies of the classical world, with a rich and varied history and reception, yet it appears to have its roots in a very particular place and time. The authors of the surviving works of Greek tragic drama-Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides-were all from one city, Athens, and all lived in the fifth century BC; unsurprisingly, it has often been supposed that tragic drama was inherently linked in some way to fifth-century Athens and its democracy. Why then do we refer to tragedy as 'Greek', rather than 'Attic' or 'Athenian', as some scholars have argued? This volume argues that the story of tragedy's development and dissemination is inherently one of travel and that tragedy grew out of, and became part of, a common Greek culture, rather than being explicitly Athenian. Although Athens was a major panhellenic centre, by the fifth century a well-established network of festivals and patrons had grown up to encompass Greek cities and sanctuaries from Sicily to Asia Minor and from North Africa to the Black Sea. The movement of professional poets, actors, and audience members along this circuit allowed for the exchange of poetry in general and tragedy in particular, which came to be performed all over the Greek world and was therefore a panhellenic phenomenon even from the time of the earliest performances. The stories that were dramatized were themselves tales of travel-the epic journeys of heroes such as Heracles, Jason, or Orestes- and the works of the tragedians not only demonstrated how the various peoples of Greece were connected through the wanderings of their ancestors, but also how these connections could be sustained by travelling poets and their acts of retelling.

Author : Ingo Gildenhard,Martin Revermann
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110223781

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Beyond the Fifth Century by Ingo Gildenhard,Martin Revermann Pdf

Beyond the Fifth Century brings together 13 scholars from various disciplines (Classics, Ancient History, Mediaeval Studies) to explore interactions with Greek tragedy from the 4th century BCE up to the Middle Ages. The volume breaks new ground in several ways. Its chronological scope encompasses periods that are not usually part of research on tragedy reception, especially the Hellenistic period, late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The volume also considers not just performance reception but various other modes of reception, between different literary genres and media (inscriptions, vase paintings, recording technology). There is a pervasive interest in interactions between tragedy and society-at-large, such as festival culture and entertainment (both public and private), education, religious practice, even life-style. Finally, the volume features studies of a comparative nature which focus less on genealogical connections (although such may be present) but rather on the study of equivalences.

Author : Ashley Clements
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107040823

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Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae by Ashley Clements Pdf

Examines the engagement of Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae with Parmenidean philosophy to issue a political critique of tragic deception and its effects.

Author : Matthew Wright
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472521255

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Euripides: Orestes by Matthew Wright Pdf

"Orestes" was one of Euripides' most popular plays in antiquity. Its plot, which centres on Orestes' murder of his mother Clytemnestra and its aftermath, is exciting as well as morally complex; its presentation of madness is unusually intense and disturbing; it deals with politics in a way which has resonances for both ancient and modern democracies; and, it has a brilliantly unexpected and ironic ending. Nevertheless, "Orestes" is not much read or performed in modern times. Why should this be so? Perhaps it is because "Orestes" does not conform to modern audiences' expectations of what a 'Greek tragedy' should be. This book makes "Orestes" accessible to modern readers and performers by explicitly acknowledging the gap between ancient and modern ideas of tragedy. If we are to appreciate what is unusual about the play, we have to think in terms of its impact on its original audience. What did they expect from a tragedy, and what would they have made of "Orestes"?

Author : Anne Norris Michelini
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0299107647

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Euripides and the Tragic Tradition by Anne Norris Michelini Pdf

Euripides and the Tragic Tradition asks all the right questions. It forces us to confront the many contradictions in Euripides' work, demonstrates the differences between the literary assumptions of Sophocles and Euripides, and challenges us to respond to Euripidean drama with sophistication and sensitivity. --Francis M. Dunn, Scholia.

Author : Hallie Marshall,C. W. Marshall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350142367

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Greek Drama V by Hallie Marshall,C. W. Marshall Pdf

Drawing together new research from emerging and senior scholars, this selection of papers from the decennial Greek Drama V conference (Vancouver, 2017) explores the works of the ancient Greek playwrights and showcases new methodologies with which to study them. Sixteen chapters from a field of international contributors examine a range of topics, from the politics of the ancient theatre, to the role of the chorus, to the earliest history of the reception of Aeschylus' Oresteia. Employing anthropological, historical, and psychological critical methods alongside performance analysis and textual criticism, these studies bring fresh and original interpretations to the plays. Several contributions analyse fragmentary tragedies, while others incorporate ideas on the performance aspect of certain plays. The final chapters deal separately with comedy, naturally focusing on the plays of Aristophanes and Menander. Greek Drama V offers a window into where the academic field of Greek drama is now, and points towards the future scholarship it will produce.

Author : Arthur Elam Haigh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN : NWU:35556033452814

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The Tragic Drama of the Greeks by Arthur Elam Haigh Pdf

Author : J. Walton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134374106

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The Greek Sense of Theatre by J. Walton Pdf

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Martin Revermann,Peter Wilson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191552502

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Performance, Iconography, Reception by Martin Revermann,Peter Wilson Pdf

Performance, Reception, Iconography assembles twenty-three papers from an international group of scholars who engage with, and develop, the seminal work of Oliver Taplin. Oliver Taplin has for over three decades been at the forefront of innovation in the study of Greek literature, and of the Greek theatre, tragic and comic, in particular. The studies in this volume centre on three key areas - the performance of Greek literature, the interactions between literature and the visual realm of iconography, and the reception and appropriation of Greek literature, and of Greek culture more widely, in subsequent historical periods.

Author : Martin Cropp,Kevin Hargreaves Lee,David Sansone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN : IND:30000077651416

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Euripides and Tragic Theatre in the Late Fifth Century by Martin Cropp,Kevin Hargreaves Lee,David Sansone Pdf

Author : George William Mallory Harrison,Vaios Liapēs,Vayos Liapis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004244573

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Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre by George William Mallory Harrison,Vaios Liapēs,Vayos Liapis Pdf

This series has existed for the past 50 years. It provides a forum for the publication of well over 300 scholarly works on all aspects of the ancient world, including inscriptions, papyri, language, the history of material culture and mentality, the history of peoples and institutions, but also latterly the classical tradition, for example, neo-latin literature and the history of Classical scholarship.

Author : H. C. Baldry
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN : UCBK:B000752635

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The Greek Tragic Theatre by H. C. Baldry Pdf

Author : Ioanna Karamanou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110660005

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Refiguring Tragedy by Ioanna Karamanou Pdf

This book brings together case studies delving into different, unstudied aspects of the Nachleben of selected lost tragedies either in their once extant form or in their fragmentary state in later periods of time. It seeks to explore the ways in which the plays in question were reworked, discussed, represented or reperformed within varying frameworks. Notably enough, research on the reception of tragic fragments could yield insight not only into the receiving work, but also into the facets of the source text that have attracted attention in its subsequent refigurations. It could thus shed light on the ideological and cultural routes through which these fragmentary tragedies were received by the poet, the scholar, the artist, the viewer, the reader and the spectator in each case. The complex process of the refiguration of a fragmentarily preserved play within different contexts could form a yardstick of its cultural power and elucidate the dynamics of fragmentation in modern times. Τhe volume is of particular interest to scholars in the fields of classics, reception, cultural and performance studies, as well as to readers fascinated by Greek tragedy and its vibrant afterlife.